Taming of the shrew theme essays

Thank you Daniel for an insightful analysis of the lack of compelling female characters in today’s film. I must admit I was expecting to see a vociferous backlash against your assertion that female characters are more complicated and complex than male characters – perhaps that will come later – and rather thrilled to hear it! I have been heartened to see the progression in female characters from screaming damsels in distress (ala Bond) to action figure leads (ala Salt) in the last twenty years in the Action Film genre and agree that there is still far more room to showcase complex motivations that are not simply mirror-images of classic male archetypes. I hope your readers/writers take your advice to heart. One day perhaps I’ll get that girl on paper who is the woman everyone wants to see and know on the screen or stage. Again, thank you.

Later writers, such as Diogenes Laërtius who cite Aristotle as the earliest source, say that Socrates had a second wife called Myrto . [10] Plutarch tells of a similar story, reporting that it comes from a work entitled On Good Birth , but he expresses doubt as to whether it was written by Aristotle. [11] In Plutarch's version of the story, Socrates, who was already married, attended to Myrto's financial concerns when she became a widow; this does not entail marriage. We have no more reliable evidence on this issue. [12]